If there is any artist who could be considered as having followed a tangential path from Hendrix to Big Star to Spacemen 3, that would be The Bevis Frond…and that’s not hyperbole, the evidence is to be found in countless albums over 30 years of thrilling musical innovation that few have matched. Filtered through The Groundhogs, The Who, Neil Young, Captain Beefheart and Kevin Ayers, this is an iconoclastic collision of distinctly British psychedelia, space-rock, grunge, slow-burning soulful laments, even grizzled folk and more than occasional moments of sublime pop genius. Yet, he remains the best kept secret in Rock ‘n’ Roll – isn’t it about time you discovered one of England’s finest songwriters and insightful lyricists.

First of all, it placed Pete Seeger as Moondog’s immediate successor in the list, which just doesn’t make sense musically.

But what was really weird was that the recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech was the “musical” link between Paul Robeson singing “Old Man River” and Mahalia Jackson’s rendition of “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” That’s just bizarre.

Sure, MLK’s sonorous voice delivered speeches with much musicality, but is the “I Have a Dream” speech really necessary to get from “Old Man River” to “O Little Town of Bethlehem”?